Lame-ass landlord repair

The submitter wrote: “Tenant instructions: 1) Call the landlord to report thermostat is making a hissing sound; 2) help maintenance guy move a bookcase blocking access to the thing that needs ‘fixin; 3) provide maintenance guy with paper clip he requests.
Maintenance guy instructions: 1) bend hissing hose over paper clip; 2) wrap with tape; 3) most important: leave the thing hanging off the wall and the bookcase you moved exactly where you moved it; 4) call it good; 5) go back to whatever you were doing before the repair job.”